iHeartMedia Inc. hired
Becker & Poliakoff P.A. to work on tax provisions and music licensing issues. Omar Franco and Bert Gomez, former senior vice president at Univision Communications, will work on the account.
HEALTH CARE
PSC Biotech hired
The Vogel Group to work on policy guidance on increasing manufacturing in the life sciences domestically. Alex Vogel, former chief counsel to ex-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), will work on the account.
CORONAVIRUS RELIEF
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. hired
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to work on reimbursement and regulatory issues related to assisted and independent living and COVID-19 related legislation. Kristine Blackwood, former deputy director for congressional oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services under former President Obama, will work on the account.
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Good Wednesday morning.
The daily rundown Between Monday and Tuesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 7,023 (nearly 0.4 percent), to 1,790,743; active hospitalizations went down by 74 (nearly 1.4 percent), to 5,307; deaths rose by 233 (0.8 percent), to 28,048.
Posted Anthony Couch
BMPD release
BAY MINETTE, Alabama A Mobile man was sentenced to 446 years in prison on Thursday, Jan. 21 for the 2017 sexual assault of the daughters of a Bay Minette woman he was dating at the time.
According to a release issued Thursday by the Bay Minette police Department, 42-year-old Anthony Lacy Couch of Mobile was sentenced by Judge Scott Taylor on three counts of first-degree sodomy, first-degree forcible rape, second-degree sodomy, misdemeanor sex abuse and felony sex abuse.
According to the release, the sentence was the result of a complaint made by a parent of two minor female juveniles that came to the Bay Minette Police Department in July of 2017.